View from the top as the QVB opens its dome for just one day

By Daisy Dumas
Updated September 18 2014 - 6:08pm, first published 12:15am
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Sydney Living Museums director Mark Goggin eyes the QVB dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A view of the Sydney skyline from outside the dome. Photo: Kate Geraghty

It may not be the tallest or oldest building to be featured in this year's Sydney Open event – those honours go to the Governor Phillip Tower and the Mint, respectively – but the Queen Victoria Building lays claim to being one of the city's most popular heritage spaces, despite having one of its most chequered histories.

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